Ontario News

TORONTO — An average of 2.67 million Canadian viewers tuned in to see the Stanley Cup final between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators, Rogers Sportsnet said in a release Monday.

ARVIAT, Nunavut — An 11-year-old boy from Nunavut is recovering in a Winnipeg hospital after police found him with a bullet wound in his abdomen.

HALIFAX — Alone in the mid-Atlantic, 73-year-old Mervyn Wheatley awoke early Friday to heaving swells threatening to capsize his weathered sailboat, Tamarind. He stumbled from his bunk in the dark, grabbing a flashlight to assess the damage.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A Vancouver man who fatally shot himself in the torso at a handgun competition appears to have dropped his weapon and it went off, says the president of a target sports association. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie of the RCMP in Kamloops, B.C.

TORONTO — Weakness in the technology sector weighed on North American stock markets Monday while the loonie shot up after "hawkish" comments about the economy by the Bank of Canada's second in command. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 89.

OTTAWA — Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is stepping down from the Supreme Court of Canada in December after 28 years on the court, including almost 18 years as chief.

CALGARY — An Alberta man made a brief appearance in court Monday after being charged with making threats against Canada's public safety minister. RCMP allege the threats against Ralph Goodale were made in a voice mail on June 4.

Highlights from the news file for Monday, June 12 ——— CANADA AND U.S.

HALIFAX — Mere hours after Sidney Crosby won his third Stanley Cup, the hometown museum that touts itself as "Home of the Sidney Crosby Exhibit" was already coveting new keepsakes.

AKULIVIK, Que. — A man who lived 34 years in the remote Quebec Inuit community of Akulivik, where three people were stabbed to death on the weekend, calls it the "scariest and bravest" town he's known.